How to repair a terminal, once having been set to "set term xterm", to open X-Window and not showing just a messy code?

Question

I'm using MacBook Pro running OSX 10.10 with XQuartz installed.

The Gnuplot version is 4.6.5.

After setting the terminal to xterm by typing "set term xterm", I can only get messy code in the terminal without other windows showing up.

Anyone knows how to solve it?

Here is a screen shot.

Answer 1

For me, the xterm terminal works only when also gnuplot was started from an xterm. Otherwise I do also see the 'messy' characters:

1. Call xterm.
2. Call gnuplot
3. Rund set terminal xterm; plot x on the gnuplot command line.

But do you really want to use the xterm terminal? I think using any other terminal like wxt, qt offers more possibilities.